Ag Analytics

Ag Analytics

David Sparks Ph.D.
David Sparks Ph.D.
A company called Farmlink has turned to a growing statistical field called analytics in an effort to increase yields for production agriculture. Farmlink's top brass says that Producers nationwide could have banked an extra $9.5 billion in revenues if they had gotten the full potential out of their ground. Farmlink takes data from other farms operating under like conditions and comes up with information that can help reducers increase yield. Where does that data come from? Here is Steve Fletcher: "One of the things about Farmlink is that we operate the largest combine leasing fleet in the United States. We have about 220 combines going over 1,000,000 and a quarter acres per year. We have a lot of information that we can pull this from and we are showing you comparisons to others who have like conditions were able to achieve.

Bill Aiken from Stateline Cooperative his one of the partners to Farmlink. My role in this is explaining what this means at the farm gate level, in other words, working directly with growers. As a retailer, we have agronomists who are technically competent, trained in the skills of agronomy who have signed and ethics statement indicating that the kinds of things that they will do working with growers will increase productivity, do it in a profitable manner, and also do it in a way that minimizes any negative impact on the environment."

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